[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH] Display road name instead of ref in routing directions

Wed Oct 28 20:52:47 GMT 2009

Hi, Clinton,
Clinton Gladstone wrotes: 
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*on* /Wed Oct 28 12:01:24 GMT 2009/
> Since this may significantly improve routing directions in certain
> circumstances, I would appreciate your feedback.
>   
Actually i can't see any improvements in routing. The routing seems to 
be the same , not worse and not better as before.
But i will pay attention of it.
> Some additional comments:
>
> - display_name may not be the best name for the style file tag.
>   
hmh,  something like "turninstruction_name" would be more meaningful but 
maybe a little bit long.
> - The patch to StyledConverter.java simply prepends the display_name
> to the list of references. This takes advantage of the side-effect
> that the refs are all written sequentially as additional labels. It
> might be a cleaner approach to directly write the display name as a
> secondary label, but the patch was a very quick and cheap way of
> testing this concept.
>   
Sorry but i don't know whats't the pros/cons of the both ways.

I can only say that the patch works for me(as far as i can see in the 
moment) and with the flexibility given in the style file it's a 
prakticable + good way to deal with the label.

cheers
Gert